Robert Dow

Adobe fills out its line, announces next-generation products

Adobe had a whole lineup of new products and strategies to announce at NAB 2013 including the rollout of Adobe Anywhere. The company gave previews of new features coming in its next round of Creative Suite products, which may or may not be named CS 7. (Adobe is reserving the right to come up with a new name.)

Download Jon Peddie’s Tech Watch Quarterly

We have compiled some of our best articles, reviews and editorials from the first quarter in 2013 and made them available in a new quarterly review. You can download the new quarterly edition HERE, along with some other talks and presentations from Q1.

Dolby 3D just might save stereoscopic 3D

Last year at NAB, Dolby introduced a new 3D autostereoscopic display designed and devel­oped in conjunction with Philips. The display has been mak­ing victory laps around the world and winning awards wherever it goes. This year, Dolby came back to NAB with a new 3D platform strategy to enable 3D content creation and distribution. Phil­ips and Dolby have been using … Read more

Bringing mummies back to life

Richard III took the world by storm after his bones were discovered under an English parking lot and his face was recreated using 3D organic modeling software.While not diminishing that accomplishment, the world knew a bit about what Richard III might have looked like. We knew nothing about what two child mummies dating back 2,000 years might have looked like … Read more

Travel insights

Industry is facing the same issues all over the world -it’s just the timing that changes If you care, I’ve been pretty much on the road since early March. I’ve enjoyed myself and I’m possibly smarter, though I’m further behind on my work with each airplane ride. In fact, at a certain point I may just have to stay out … Read more

Organovo creates first 3D bio-printed human liver

3D bio-printing research firm Organovo announced this week it has crafted an in vitro three-dimensional human liver using its bio-printing technology. Organovo CEO Keith Murphy made the announcement at the Experimental Biology Conference in Boston.

Time to upgrade

Inflation and Moore’s Law favor the consumer and the enterprise When I’m preparing a presentation, I look at relevant historical data. It helps set the stage for my talks and gives the audience a chance to get in sync with my comments. When you’re running in the trenches 24/7, you tend to forget some of the outside world events—and that … Read more

“architecture has barely scratched the surface of what computers can do.”

Smart Geometry co-founder says customers will demand 1 million architectural design iterations per project architecture. Lars Hesselgren is director of research at PLP Architects of London and a Smart Geometry board member. GraphicSpeak sat down with Hesselgren during the event at The Bartlett.. Read the interview on Graphicspeak.

GrabCAD Workbench cracks the door on open engineering

GrabCAD is a free portal anyone could use to post and share engineering models. The company has made no secret that it had more in mind. This week GrabCAD introduced a new site for design collaboration. The goal of GrabCAD Workbench, currently in limited beta, is to simplify the process of sharing CAD models with both CAD users and non-users.